The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120699 Message #2628401
Posted By: Don Firth
10-May-09 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Star Trek- movie
Subject: RE: BS: 'Star Trek- movie
Some years ago, comedian Penn Gillette (of Penn and Teller) wrote a humor column in PC Magazine. Often, he would use his bully pulpit to comment on the human condition, generally triggered by something he had observed in the computer world.
Someone had thoroughly examined a group of symbols and "wingdings" in one of the early versions of Microsoft Word and noticed that there was a skull and crossbones just a few spaces away from a Star of David. This person concluded from this spacial proximity that the program contained a hidden message, saying "Kill all Jews!" and from this, he now knew—no shadow of a doubt—that Bill Gates is anti-Semitic.
Penn Gillette remarked, "There are people in this world who can find something to be offended by just walking through the rubble after an explosion in a Scrabble tile factory!"
If you are the kind of person that manages to find hidden symbols in everything, that says more about you than it does about the symbols.
Simmer down, folks!
Don Firth